BACK IN THE 1920s, thernNational Air Races were as popular as NASCAR events are today. The race got its start on Long Island but relocated to Cleveland in 1929. That year, a couple of employees of the Travel Air Manufacturing Company in Wichita, Kansas, and its head honcho, Walter Beech, who was one of the founders (Clyde Cessna and Lloyd Stearman were the others), got it in their heads to build a racer that would beat the fast and powerful military pursuit aircraft thatrndominated competition. But because the factory was running full bore to fill orders for its airplanes, the two race enthusiasts couldn't build a racer on company time.
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机译：早在1920年代，国家航空竞赛就和今天的NASCAR事件一样受欢迎。比赛在长岛开始，但于1929年迁至克利夫兰。那年，堪萨斯州威奇托的Travel Air Manufacturing Company的几名员工和其头目沃尔特·比奇（Walter Beech）的创始人之一（克莱德·塞斯纳（Clyde Cessna）和劳埃德·斯蒂尔曼（Lloyd Stearman）等人，让他们想起了一个可以击败快速而强大的军事追逐飞机的赛车手。但是由于工厂正在全力以赴地完成飞机订单，因此这两位赛车迷无法在公司时间里建造赛车手。
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